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London Breed won less than 37 percent of first-place votes in last month’s ranked-choice mayoral race, but a new poll shows at least two-thirds of San Francisco voters have a favorable opinion of her. The phone and online poll of 635 San Francisco voters found 65 percent of those surveyed viewed Breed favorably and 24 percent negatively — the remainder were undecided or had no opinion.

Sections of underground pipe are stored in the center of Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco as construction, begun in 2016, continues. It is expected to be finished in 2020. Traffic is rerouted through a construction zone in front of City Hall as work continues on Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco. The big construction project on Van Ness Avenue, which began in 2016, is already a year behind schedule.

Dan Bradford sits with his two dogs in the living room of his newly constructed home built on the site of his former home that was destroyed during the Tubbs Fire in October 2017 in the Coffey Park neighborhood of Santa Rosa, Calif. Friday, June 8, 2018. less Dan Bradford sits with his two dogs in the living room of his newly constructed home built on the site of his former home that was destroyed during the Tubbs Fire in October 2017 in the Coffey Park neighborhood .

Muni riders whose travel includes trips through the Twin Peaks Tunnel will be forced to find alternative routes. Signs posted at Muni stations alert riders about the tunnel closure and suggest alternate modes of transportation. Passengers ride through the Twin Peaks Tunnel on an L train after leaving West Portal Station. Muni trains will not run through the Twin Peaks Tunnel for two months during work to replace rails and their supporting structure inside the 100-year-old tube.

The Chronicle’s list of the 100 best restaurants came out the other day, dessert in a region obsessed with food and the good life. Business is booming; 18 new restaurants made the top 100 this year. But what about the old restaurants? After all, eating and drinking is the third-oldest profession in these parts. The miners came in ’49. And then they opened restaurants. Not long after that, San Francisco went from a boomtown to a big city.

The rats scavenging for food drive Marcus Emery crazy at night. Their skinny tails thump the walls as he tries to sleep. It’s a harsher sound than a leaky faucet dripping through the night, he said. People can’t keep food in the tents they’ve set up on Northgate Avenue.

The three most famous cats in Oakland were doing last week what cats do best. Nothing. They were having a pretty good time doing nothing, too, and ignoring all the humans who were desperately trying, as humans will, to get a cat to do something. “Come on, sweetheart,” said zookeeper Heather Paddock, holding out a dead mouse in vain. “Come on. You want this. Come get it.” The three cats are the newly arrived Oakland Zoo mountain lion cubs.

Most of our days are filled with routine and pass by in an indiscriminate blur. Just a few days in a lifetime are remembered by the date, minute-to-minute, from beginning to end. Weddings, the birth of children, the deaths of loved ones, major news events. Add one very unusual day to my list: April 30, 2018. The day my Chronicle colleague Peter Hartlaub and I attempted to ride every Muni line — bus, train, streetcar and cable car — in one day.

Gavin Newsom catches it from all sides in California gubernatorial debate Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom is the undisputed front-runner in the June 5 primary for governor, which made him the No. 1 target in Tuesday night’s candidates’ debate in San Jose. For much of the 90-minute session, it was five against one, with the former San Francisco mayor fielding nonstop attacks from the other candidates looking to finish in the top two and advance to the November election to replace termed-out Gov.

My advice to President Trump is shut up and take the Fifth. The questions that Special Counsel Robert Mueller intends to ask — about collusion, about obstruction, about so many things — show that Trump has no choice but to button up.

Prom after the firestorm Teens at Cardinal Newman High revel in the coming-of-age tradition 6 months after neighborhoods were reduced to rubble and ash Prom after the firestorm Teens at Cardinal Newman High revel in the coming-of-age tradition 6 months after neighborhoods were reduced to rubble and ash She wanted everything to be perfect, just for one night.

After Jena Pruitt graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 2014, she booked a one-way ticket to Italy. Then she backpacked across Europe for two years. “That one-way flight turned into something no one was expecting,” said Pruitt, 25, who didn’t return until Mother’s Day 2016.

I’m not sure where it will land in the pages of American history books, but for the first time we have a president admitting publicly that he was involved with a porn star. The revelation came Thursday on the morning TV show “Fox & Friends,” when a rambling President Trump acknowledged for the first time that his lawyer Michael Cohen represented him in the “crazy Stormy Daniels deal.

There were enough noodles, meatballs, cold cuts, salads and smoked salmon at Specs on Sunday afternoon to feed half of North Beach, which was a good thing because it seemed like half of North Beach showed up. The famous Specs Twelve Adler Museum Cafe celebrated its 50th anniversary last week — it opened April 26, 1968 — with a party Sunday.

A long-running and controversial proposal to build a private marina at Clipper Cove, a stretch of calm water between Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island, appeared to suffer a setback Monday at the Board of Supervisors’ Land Use Committee. After extensive public comment, the committee unanimously passed a resolution affirming the city’s commitment to preserving Clipper Cove as an important public recreation space and educational area.